Now
we will discuss your mental body. Yes, that aspect of self which is in the
spotlight of attention, which is considered by advanced humanity to be the most
desired and sought after aspect of self.

We
will talk about its attributes, the advantages of fully developing it, and then
we will discuss the disadvantage of being focused upon this aspect, the pitfalls
that must be avoided, the need to move beyond the intense focus as one seeks
further development, as one seeks to clear and balance ones’ life completely.

What
is the mental process? Have you thought about it? One knows that the brain is a
very complex organ, that it contains many things whose purposes science is just
beginning to discover. They have not yet fully identified the human brain. Is
the mental faculty the human brain? Well, not exactly. It is an aspect of the
consciousness that functions through the human brain, that is true, but the
mental process is an aspect of your consciousness. If you can remember that this
is true, it will aid you in your understanding why, although most human brains
are physically the same, some people utilize them much more productively than
others. So the brain is just the vehicle within which that particular aspect
known as the mental process operates now.

Why
then do some people have the ability to compute very difficult problems, to
logically deduce certain aspects that others are not capable of doing, to
consider the rationale of a situation and come to some very concrete decisions
regarding it while others do not? Some people pretty much avoid this level of
thought unless they are forced to do it. They are not able to utilize their
brains, which are probably as good as anyone else's. Why is this true?

Well,
from an evolutionary point of view, the aspect of self that contains the mental
abilities has developed over eons of time. It does not necessarily have anything
to do with the particular vehicle through which it is currently operates. If the
mental process has been very traumatized, very affected, then perhaps the
vehicle in which it functions is not perfect. This is from its own doing;
remember, we are products of many experiences, and thus, the mental abilities
within the brain area, if they are not perfect, are also a product of what we
have been and what we have experienced. Those who have mental dysfunctions and
are within institutions may occasionally be products of this process. Usually,
however, it is an emotional disorder. Sometimes it is a misalignment between the
mental and emotional bodies that is so forceful, so extreme, that serious mental
disorders are seen, forcing these people into the care of others because they
are not able to function and care for themselves. In these cases, the brain
itself is not affected, but the alignment with the mental faculties and the
other bodies is greatly off and causes very severe problems.

While
confined to institutions such people usually are not able to pull this alignment
back to the extent required for several lifetimes. The fact that they are in
body can resolve some of these problems a little bit. Thus, they may have to
spend perhaps 10 lifetimes confined to institutions before they can balance the
mental processes sufficiently to function as an independent consciousness upon
the earth plane. Know that such severe handicaps have resulted from severe
misuse of the mental abilities.

Occasionally
there is an exception here. A great one may choose to aid the Earth and come to
Earth in such a misaligned manner, knowing that because of his much greater
abilities he aids the Earth itself in achieving mental balance so that others
who are unbalanced do not have to work quite as hard to resolve their balances.
The great one does this with much love. Great ones come to resolve many
problems. They do it in many areas, but we are talking now of the misalignment
of the mental body, and many in the history of the world have done this. The
numbers are not great when you consider the numbers of people who have lived,
but just one great ones consciousness accomplishes a great deal towards easing
immersion in any particular area. They give this with love, knowing that it is
their part in the Creator's plan as with grace He allows humankind to approach
Him again with greater ease than perhaps they deserve, for the Creator certainly
is not vindictive. He aids His children many times when perhaps they do not
deserve it. Is it not marvelous, the Creator's love that aids us now?

The
Earth is currently in the process of complete development of the mental body.
That is, the bulk of humankind is; advanced humanity has already developed this
body to a great degree, but the bulk of human consciousness is engaged in this
activity in the present age. Thus the emphasis on developing the mental faculty
upon the Earth. Thus the need for so many to be educated mentally, the emphasis
upon the complete understanding of the mind with not as great an emphasis upon
the emotional needs. Humanity gets in a little bit of trouble here.

Humanity
seeks to develop one aspect without seeking to develop the aspect that balances
it. This is one reason for current problems, for world turmoil. The emotions
churn within humanity because they are not as balanced most of the time as those
who have begun to balance the mental faculty. This may sound like a
contradiction, for I have said before to use the mental faculty to develop and
balance the emotional body. That's very true, and when you can do it, it brings
about a balanced condition. However, I am talking now about those of humankind
upon this Earth who do not yet recognized the need for balance. Their thoughts
pursue the mental activities and pay no attention to the emotional ones. I am
talking about mentally focused human beings. Perhaps you might equate what I'm
saying to college professors, those who pursue the intellectual in great depth,
not even recognizing that the emotional body is important--they do not find it
so. They simply, in generalizing, fence off the emotional area and allow it to
fester, and when it has festered enough, it bursts forth in some unexpected way,
and suddenly one who's been very mentally focused collapses from a lack of
balance.

There
are those so mentally focused that if they would pay just little attention to
their emotional bodies, they would achieve good balance. That is just wonderful.
We are not talking about those rather rare individuals but about the ones who
love to focus upon the mental abilities to take precedence over everything else,
and thus block any sort of balance that may be needed with the emotional body.
Great danger is here because it leads to submersion of the areas within the
subconscious mind which need attention. They rest there, and when they reach the
point where it triggers a very immersed area, then you have this great
explosion.

Please
think about it. Those of you who go into the world every day need to understand
the situation very thoroughly. As teachers you need to know how to understand
the ones you encounter. If one who is so mentally focused that he has developed
the mental body to a high level recognizes the need to integrate all of the
learning process--as many of you are doing now, recognizing that you have
physical, spiritual, emotional and mental needs, that you must learn to work
with all four bodies--then he can do some very wonderful things. In fact, this
is the ideal way to begin the clearing process. It is an ideal focus from which
to clear because the mental focus and enables you to see that you can do many
things. You can rationalize and logically discern many needs that you have--but
only after you become advanced enough, if you will, experienced enough, to see
beyond self, to begin to understand the Creator's Plan for Earth and to begin to
seek your own part in it. This is most important. So, if we have one who is
mentally focused and see beyond self, then we have the beginning of a very good
disciple, who will probably, in one lifetime, complete much work. It is
wonderful and it is the most effective place to begin your esoteric work.

However,
for a long period of time, one who is mentally focused, after developing these
great faculties, thinks that this is all there is this. In a sense he develops
great moral superiority, looking at those who are not so focused and saying,
"Look at what they are doing there. They churn emotionally. I do not do that. I
am focused within my mental body and that is a very good place to be. I am much
superior to them now. Why don't they just quit churning like that. Look it that
immersion. How unusual. They are not very advanced--I am certainly much superior
to them now.” He also seeks to study everything, and finding life so
interesting, and he seeks greater and greater knowledge, never getting enough.
This is not bad, my friends, as long as it is done with it little bit of
balance--recognizing that seeking knowledge for Knowledge sake concern can be
overdone. What it does is waste time. Yes, it does waste precious time that
might be used to serve the Creator.

Now,
I am not saying the Creator judges anyone for this--He does not, nor do we, your
teachers. We recognize that everyone who is mentally focused spends a period of
time at this activity. We hope that it will be as short a period as possible,
that this advanced piece of human consciousness--because that is what it is, at
this point--will soon begin to recognize there is so much more, that they are so
curious about life that they will begin to see how much they are missing by not
going beyond the mental faculty. When this point is reached, the Creator has a
very valuable one who will soon be serving him completely, serving him with
great intelligence, which is necessary, and in balance, which is also necessary,
and in joy and love, which is wonderful!

Generally
speaking, those who are so mentally focused have not allowed great development
of either the psychic abilities or the intuitive faculties. This is a
generalization, and there can be exceptions to everything. It really depends on
the amount mental focus, because in this body it can be complete focus, and it
is very intense when it is present and does not allow focus upon any other body.
Thus you see great scholars who neglect even their physical needs and
practically starve to death unless someone, such as a wife or a student, shoves
food in their hands. It can be total

This
mental focus can be all consuming. Many of them see not that there could be a
Creator. They see only the mental processes and cannot understand anything of
the spiritual area. What they have done, in effect, is block any other aspect
completely, and as it begins to dawn on them they begin to seek these other
aspects and it is rather slow-going at first. The rational gets in the way. They
seek to go beyond it and then realize this process, putting them right back into
the mental area. This is a very deep pattern and very difficult to let go. The
Will must be utilized in this case, and, as one so focused begins to seek
greater development beyond the mental and begins to analyze that, he has to stop
and say to himself, "Oh no, I can't do that now. I must let go of these mental
processes. I must go beyond that." Do it with the Will and then do it with love,
because the love aspect can aid here. Those who are so mentally focused and wish
to move beyond it must first surround themselves with the love of the Creator,
and more intensely they become involved with this love aspect, the more easily
that they will move beyond the mental.

Now,
occasionally you will see one who is mentally focused but allows the intuition
to develop to a great degree without losing his mental focus. What has happened
here? Think about it very carefully. Another aspect of the Personality has
entered here: the Ego, which says, "I have great mental capabilities, and now I
must not let go of them." But why does he allow the intuition to develop?
Because it is recognized by the Ego that if he extends these mental capabilities
into the intuitional area he can really extend his own effectiveness, his own
abilities. The mental area can recognize this. However, he is not yet like the
will of his mental focus. One who begins with this great a focus will always be
so focused, but he must allow it to lighten, allowing it to come under the
direction of the Soul. This, my friends, is the key! Yes, it is the key! The
Personality must come under the direction of the Soul for one such as this who
has allowed great intuitional abilities to form, but nothing else. You can
surely see that when the Personality is directed by the Soul that says, "I do
not have to be so important. I do not have to extend my own abilities now. What
I have to do is balance all four aspects--the physical, the mental, the
emotional, and the spiritual--and thus I will find my own proper point here now
in the Creator's plan for the Earth. I am not meant to seek this unbalanced
mental condition. I am meant to serve."

This
is the key word here--to serve. The Soul knows that the Personality must let go
and allow the Soul to function as it was meant to function on the Earth. Do you
not see my friends, that the purpose of our living is to serve the Creator, not
our own individual growth? Our own growth is a part of the Creator's purpose,
but it is not the main part. Our main purpose here is to implement the plan of
the Creator, and each individual consciousness knows that at Soul level. We must
allow the Soul to function here--not just these great developmental faculties or
intuitional faculties, or any other faculties from a separate aspect. It must
all be integrated into the soul, for it knows how to serve the Creator.

Techniques for Balancing the Four Bodies

Mental
faculties are wonderful and develop over great lengths of time, but they need to
be brought into line with other aspects of self. As you begin to do this, there
are several valuable exercises that can help to overcome this pattern of
involvement with the mental faculties.

First,
decide that you are going to seek and practice other means of identifying
solutions to life besides the mental abilities, which are already developed. At
first there will be resistance to this because your present method is familiar
and easier than learning a new one. But if you truly wish to grow, to evolve, to
become greater, then seek this way.

Let
go completely of the mental faculties. Choose a specific situation and give
yourself an area to work in. If you are seeking to know more about the area of
your particular part in the New Age, then do not analyze it, do not consider
logic. First, see what you know about it. Then launch yourself into it in a
state of meditation. Take part in it and see what happens. Do this in a very
balanced way, not when you're having an emotional problem or being engaged by a
mental exercise or problem. Try to be as balanced as possible when beginning the
exercise and then let go of everything. In a sense, erase as much as possible in
the mental patterns, emotional trauma, physical trauma or needs. Become open to
possibilities. This is very important.

Visualize
the physical, the emotional, the mental and the spiritual bodies in a perfect
line, a vertical pattern in which they all fit together very well using the
Blue-string exercise that follows.

See
all four bodies superimposed upon each other and then see centered right between
your eyebrows a blue string that is balancing you now. Then launch yourself
forward to the new age. Experience it in this completely balanced condition. Do
not rationalize, do not conceptualize it mentally, but experience it from a
complete point of balance this may aid you, and if you find yourself going back
into a whole pattern of mental analysis, then pull yourself out of it with your
Will. Do not allow to happen. Will yourself back into a completely integrated
state. Remember: the four bodies vertically placed with your blue string center
within self. Experience from a centered condition now.

After
completing the exercise, analyze it and look at it logically. Decide how well
you did in freeing yourself and this intense mental focus, if that's for you
operate from. It will aid you now.

Another
exercise that will be very helpful is to begin a step by step progression toward
your integrated state. Of course that's what you are doing already but undertake
a conscious one now. Take a little step forward; in a state of meditation, see
yourself stepping forward. Now feel around self. Are you balanced or are you
completely mentally focused? If you are mentally focused, regroup--see that your
bodies are balanced as stated before and then take another step. Are you
balanced? Look and see and then take another step. Continue this, rebalancing
when necessary, and then begin to experience within self, in an inner state,
what is happening.

Be
sure you look at all four bodies, because one or another may fall out of
balance. Look at your string in your physical body. Is it centered? Look at it
in your emotional body. Is it centered? Look at it in your mental body. Is it
centered? Look at it in your spiritual body. Is it centered? Then look at your
string. Is it smart itself? Is it one continuous vertical line through all four
bodies? If not, realign it.

Then
consider a subject--whatever you wish. Is it spiritual growth? Then consider
spiritual growth. Look at the four bodies. Are they centered? If one comes out
of line now, then there's something in the spiritual growth area that is out of
line. Which body is it? Look and see. This will give you a clue as to what area
needs to be worked upon.

If
you wish to step forward in the area of the New Age, take that step, then check
the four bodies. Is one out of balance? Perhaps the mental? If so, perhaps you
are intellectualizing about the new age and not understanding it spiritually or
emotionally or physically. Bring the four bodies in line now and keep in that
way. Experiment with whatever subject you wish. This is a very valid technique
for aiding self now.

Another
helpful technique is to sit down and blank your mind--blank it. I know it is
difficult, but you can do it for an instant at least. As the thoughts begin to
flow, what are they? What area do they relate to? What thoughts within your
mental body are influencing your need to be completely balanced? See if you can
identify some of these thoughts. Write them down and become aware of what they
mean.

Let
me give you an example here. After clearing the mind, perhaps the first thing
that comes back in is "I must prepare for this social event I'm going to have."
Well, I would say then that the physical body is affecting the balanced
condition, perhaps the mental also, because of worry enters here; in fact, with
this emotion of worry you could say that all of the bodies are affecting the
balance. What to do? You look for the beliefs and you remove them, you look at
the physical involvement, seeing if there is a reason it intruded on your need
for balance; you begin to will the mind to do as you wish; you, in a sense, to
put it all together and--not just a sub conscious mind were the beliefs are
stored, but the physical body in the mental body also in line with the emotional
body, which will accomplish the balancing of all four bodies.

Many
techniques such as these will aid you in balancing. These have been specifically
designed for those of you are focused in the mental area.